Elmore Leonard – a life in pictures

Elmore Leonard outside a diner in Detroit, Michigan, November 1992 Photograph: Michael Brennan/Getty Images

Paul Newman and Diane Cilento in Hombre, 1967. Leonard's book was published in 1961 Photograph: Alamy

The original jacket of The Big Bounce, Leonard's first crime novel, 1969 Photograph: http://www.elmoreleonard.com

Touch, 1987, was adapted into a film with the same title by Paul Schrader in 1997, starring Christopher Walken Photograph: http://www.elmoreleonard.com

Freaky Deaky first published in 1988 Photograph: PR

Rum Punch, 1992, was adapted into the film Jackie Brown in 1997 by Quentin Tarantino Photograph: PR

Pronto, 1993, which, alongside Leonard's novel Riding the Rap and short story Fire in the Hole, were used to create the hit TV series Justified Photograph: http://www.elmoreleonard.com

Danny DeVito in Get Shorty, 1995, based on Leonard's 1990 book Photograph: Cinetext/MGM/Allstar

Christopher Walken in Touch, directed by Paul Schrader, 1997 Photograph: Cinetext/Pathe/Allstar

George Clooney in Out of Sight, based on Leonard's novel, directed by Steven Soderbergh in 1998 Photograph: Alamy

Pam Grier in Jackie Brown, 1997, directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film was based on Leonard's book Rum Punch from 1992 Photograph: Cinetext/MIRAMAX/Allstar

Tishomingo Blues, 2002 Photograph: PR

3:10 to Yuma, 2007. From left: Kevin Durand, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda. The film was based on a Leonard story from 1953, which had already been adapted into a film in 1957 Photograph: Lions Gate/Everett/Rex Features

Timothy Olyphant, Terry Dale Parks and Patton Oswalt in TV series Justified (season four, episode Hole In The Wall, 2013). Photograph: Everett/Rex Features

Djibouti, 2010 Photograph: http://www.elmoreleonard.com

Raylan, Leonard's last novel Photograph: PR

Leonard, aged 86, stands in front of shelves containing his books in his Michigan home in September 2012 Photograph: Paul Sancya/AP